This release provides a suitable starting point for productization of secure
world boot and runtime firmware, in either the AArch32 or AArch64 execution
-state.
+states.
Users are encouraged to do their own security validation, including penetration
testing, on any secure world code derived from TF-A.
- Secure Monitor library code such as world switching, EL1 context management
and interrupt routing.
When a Secure-EL1 Payload (SP) is present, for example a Secure OS, the
- AArch64 EL3 Runtime Software must be integrated with a dispatcher component
- (SPD) to customize the interaction with the SP.
+ AArch64 EL3 Runtime Software must be integrated with a Secure Payload
+ Dispatcher (SPD) component to customize the interaction with the SP.
-- A Test SP/SPD to demonstrate AArch64 Secure Monitor functionality and SP
+- A Test SP and SPD to demonstrate AArch64 Secure Monitor functionality and SP
interaction with PSCI.
- SPDs for the `OP-TEE Secure OS`_, `NVIDIA Trusted Little Kernel`_
- Support for the GCC, LLVM and Arm Compiler 6 toolchains.
-- Support combining several libraries into a self-called "romlib" image, that
- may be shared across images to reduce memory footprint. The romlib image
+- Support for combining several libraries into a self-called "romlib" image
+ that may be shared across images to reduce memory footprint. The romlib image
is stored in ROM but is accessed through a jump-table that may be stored
in read-write memory, allowing for the library code to be patched.
Platforms
~~~~~~~~~
-Various AArch32 and AArch64 builds of this release has been tested on variants
-r0, r1 and r2 of the `Juno Arm Development Platform`_.
+Various AArch32 and AArch64 builds of this release have been tested on r0, r1
+and r2 variants of the `Juno Arm Development Platform`_.
Various AArch64 builds of this release have been tested on the following Arm
Fixed Virtual Platforms (`FVP`_) without shifted affinities that do not
Get the TF-A source code from `GitHub`_.
-See the `User Guide`_ for instructions on how to install, build and use
-the TF-A with the Arm `FVP`_\ s.
+See the `User Guide`_ for instructions on how to install, build and use TF-A
+with the Arm `FVP`_\ s.
-See the `Firmware Design`_ for information on how the TF-A works.
+See the `Firmware Design`_ for information on how TF-A works.
See the `Porting Guide`_ as well for information about how to use this
software on another Armv7-A or Armv8-A platform.